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Do biofuels cause famine? EU President opens probe

Culprit sought for higher food prices
Environment • 25 Apr 10:58

Colliding galaxies mark Hubble anniversary

New set of galactic pile-up snaps released
Space • 24 Apr 15:24

Brown gov will make 'big commitment' to carbon capture

Big as in small
Environment • 24 Apr 11:24

Brain-plug weapons could provide war crime immunity

Comment Lawyer spots future brainhat-slaughter atrocity loophole
Rise of the Machines • 23 Apr 18:42

Girl-only fish species survives by cloning

No men or bicycles required
Biology • 23 Apr 13:11

Wake me up when Global Warming's over

Pollution, conservation bigger worries than climate
Environment • 23 Apr 13:02

EU plans to boost organ donor numbers

With region-wide card and 24/7 hotline
Biology • 23 Apr 11:03

The American way of bioterror - an A-Z of ricin crackpots

Homebrew poison of choice to the hard of thinking
Biology • 22 Apr 13:09

South Koreans clone sniffer dog

Canadian labrador retriever x 7
Biology • 22 Apr 10:15

PETA offers $1m for test tube chicken

Cock without the a-doodle-doo
Biology • 22 Apr 01:07

Korean astronaut recounts 'ballistic' Soyuz re-entry

'At first I was scared', admits Yi So-Yeon
Space • 21 Apr 13:21

US watchdogs threaten vanity gene testers

Crack down on DNA crackers
Biology • 21 Apr 13:19

Scottish Government scuppers Lewis wind farm plan

Island's wetlands spared the turbines
Environment • 21 Apr 13:01

Biofuel backlash prompts Brussels back-pedal

Corn-based fuel becoming a hot potato
Environment • 21 Apr 10:53

ISS Expedition 16 crew back on terra firma

Soyuz capsule touches down in Kazakhstan
Space • 21 Apr 08:57

Cow turds fuel Blighty's hydrogen filling station embrace

Birmingham Uni fills up on brown gas
Environment • 18 Apr 10:04

Schoolboy's asteroid-strike sums are wrong

German kid saw 1 in 450 chance of Apophis apocalypse
Space • 16 Apr 11:06

X-48B mini flying-wing drone prototype resumes testing

NASA/Boeing mantacraft model pulls in slats
Science • 16 Apr 08:02

Tesla Motors in dirty-tricks suit against Valley electrocar rival

Elon Musk to pit style skills against upstart startup
Science • 15 Apr 11:04

The BBC, the UN, and climate bullying

Andrew's Mailbag Grab an umbrella: it's global wetting, now...
Environment • 15 Apr 10:15

Scientist who named the black hole dies aged 96

Famous boffin was 'last of the physics superheroes'
Physics • 14 Apr 15:31

Canada.gov blocks sale of space company to US

Wants to keep timeshare rights on Arctic spy-sat
Space • 14 Apr 13:15

US war robots in Iraq 'turned guns' on fleshy comrades

Kill-droid rebellion thwarted... this time
Rise of the Machines • 11 Apr 10:10

NASA's Phoenix closes on Red Planet

Arctic touch-down on 25 May
Space • 11 Apr 08:58

Soyuz capsule docks with ISS

Expedition 17 runs on rails
Space • 10 Apr 15:23

Boffins chomp noggin-nobbling narcotics

Jekyll and super-intelligent Hyde
Biology • 10 Apr 15:08

US will sky spy-sat to eye spy-sats

Watch out for the watcher-watcher
Space • 10 Apr 14:48

NASA gets intimate with Phobos

New HiRISE snaps of Martian moon
Space • 10 Apr 10:00

Minister: Waste wood is 'huge potential resource'

Burning it could generate 0.7% of UK's 'leccy!
Environment • 10 Apr 09:50

Biologists track down elusive lungless frog

Backwards evolution in Borneo
Biology • 10 Apr 09:31

Faces give away giveaways - psych profs' amazing claim

Also: women don't fancy studs who get lots of sex
Biology • 9 Apr 14:52

Japan turning itself into Cyberman machine civilisation

Three million converted to undying robotoids by 2025
Biology • 9 Apr 09:03

Korea's first astronaut heads for ISS

Historic 10-day gig
Space • 8 Apr 12:44

Blog bully crows over BBC climate victory

Emergent Truthiness
Environment • 8 Apr 12:07

Defra moves to protect UK honeybees

Consultation first step to concrete strategy
Biology • 8 Apr 11:52

Apprentice contestant to offer Zeppelin trips above London

Insert 'you're fired' joke here
Science • 8 Apr 11:02

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